Solve this problem and I will love you forever
- Thread starter Smoon
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Sneak in to wherever your ships are stored, fly them the hell out, dock them somewhere friendly... and then begin work on your rep!
The other way is equip a KWS, find an anarchy near fed space, and scan & kill ships that aren't aligned with a federation faction. Then turn in those federation bounties at a fed outpost. I think they finally fixed the rep with bounty hunting - I found it a very quick way to raise my empire rep on the 1.2 beta server.
Well time to call upon the mighty cobra then.
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So I kill non-fed wanted or fed wanted? This is why I should stick to trading
Is the key to this killing all non-fed aligned wanted ships?
Yeah, because you don't know WHO they are wanted by.
Basically, in bounty hunting:
1. If a target is wanted by its own faction, there is no reputation lost on the kill. So, for example, if I kill an Empire-aligned ship that is wanted in Empire space, I don't lose reputation.
2. If, however, a target is NOT wanted by its own faction, there is reputation loss. So when I kill members of an independent pirate faction within Empire space, the pirate faction fairly quickly hates me for it.
Every target in an Anarchy is clean until you scan with a kill warrant scanner. The scanner tells you if SOMEONE wants them dead, but not who. So for caution, don't kill federation-aligned targets, because if they're wanted by someone other than the federation, you'd lose rep.
I think the problem is that
a) There are far too many "independent" factions that are not simple pirates and suffer from that issue - corporations, political parties etc. They operate inside an Empire system, but somehow they are deemed independent of the Empire (why does the Empire allow that even?) and thus you suffer from weeding out the bad apples amongst them.
b) In systems that are independent as a whole, the various factions are not affiliated with the one controlling the system, ever, i.e. not a sort of "mini-Empire" with subfactions to which #1 would apply. So everyone is independent and thus you lose rep with everyone but the one faction controlling the system.
It doesn't help that outside of RES, there are so many pirates and gangsters that belong to totally legit corporations. Like, do they all employ thousands of thugs to rob traders? It's especially strange to see a pirate attack a trader from their own faction - and if you help the trader you LOSE reputation with their faction...
I now call that effect where you are punished for taking out a pirate the "magical reputation armour".
I'd love to see it changed into a system where if a faction is doing legal business, it behaves, reputation-wise, identical as if it had issued any bounties themselves. Pirates, of course, should always hate you for taking out their gang members.
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Many good folks have advised how to get your rep back.
In future if you have black market goods for sale them find an outpost with a black market. You won't get scanned on landing and your rep stays intact. No fines either!
